How does NPR do it? Is having a great moniker part of the job description? Even the everyday Michele Norris becomes elevated to the euphonious when pronounced the way she does: "MEE-Shel Norris."

Listeners have apparently swooned over the names. Restaurants, license plates, and even pets are named after them.

“A turtle named Ira Glass lives in Queens, and somewhere out there roams a chihuahua named Mandalit. Kai Ryssdal had, at one point, a namesake goat.

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“But perhaps no reporter's name is more beloved than Sylvia Poggioli, NPR's Italian correspondent. Sylvia has had a cow in Cambodia named after her, and a restaurant in Salem, Oregon. ‘Every time Sylvia says her name,’ the restaurateur said, ‘I envision Italy, I see and smell good food.’"

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